Securing Saudi future (Sabria S. Jawhar, Arab News)

For many year — decades, really, — the need for a comprehensive national plan was badly felt. We were the most crucial player in the Middle East, but to the international community we were just another Arab country.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/916321

Between hope and history (Sabria S. Jawhar, Arab News)

The measure of a civilized country is recognizing and embracing the commonality among people regardless of race, religion or cultural differences. I fear, however, that some political leaders’ lust for exploiting our differences for political gain fuels hatred and imprisons us in an uncivilized society.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/913491

Revitalizing the role of Haia (Sabria S. Jawhar, Arab News)

The Cabinet recently passed regulations clearly defining the role of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Haia).

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/912091

Manipulating the system (Sabria S. Jawhar, Arab News)

Despite laws to protect women in Saudi Arabia, there remain instances in rural areas where families manipulate the system with success to further their own personal prejudices.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/908661

A case of ill-informed opinion (Sabria S. Jawhar, Arab News)

On a rare occasion I will run personal emails I received from readers of my column. Excerpts from the email with some edits to avoid libel are as follows:
“Your article ‘Revisiting counterterrorism strategy’ (March 24) cannot be complete without reference to the true source of jihadist ideology… We both know that this is the ideology of Daesh (better name MICE-militant caliphate extremists).

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Spreading lies about KSA (Sabria S. Jawhar, Arab News)

The PBS Frontline documentary titled “Saudi Arabia Uncovered” gives Americans what they want the most: A deep dish of Saudi “oppression, cruelty, executions, abuse of women and assorted nastiness” that would disgust any human being with an ounce of emotion and empathy.

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Don’t run away Obama, douse fires US created (Sabria S. Jawhar, Arab News)

It is disappointing to see President Barack Obama, a man admired so much seven years ago, turn into a weak sister on foreign policy. The damage he has caused to the Middle East through his inability to respond to the disasters in Iraq and Syria is only second to George Bush’s unnecessary and disastrous intervention in Iraq.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/896296

KSA’s realistic decision (Sabria S. Jawhar, Arab News)

Anyone curious about the future of Saudi Arabia and its regional and global intentions should consider the Saudi decision of halting military aid to Lebanon to better understand the Saudi approach toward the deteriorating geopolitical situation.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/892911

Rise of a demagogue (Sabria S. Jawhar, Arab News)

Saudis, like just about everyone else not an American citizen, are following the train wreck commonly referred to as American politics. And in quiet horror we are observing the rise of Donald J. Trump as the apparent Republican Party nominee for president of the United States.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/889456

Ill-informed analyses of KSA (Sabria S. Jawhar, Arab News)

Since Egypt’s failed revolution in 2011 and the subsequent overthrow of governments in North Africa and the Middle East there have been predictions about Saudi Arabia facing unrest. Yet five years later the Kingdom remains as strong as ever.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/885866

Stop relying on govt for social reforms (Sabria S. Jawhar, Arab News)

The King Abdullah Scholarship Program has opened many doors for Saudi women, as they attend universities for undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate degrees that promise them a better future. It’s a program that has benefited Saudi society enormously for more than a decade.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/884376

Why blame the Muslim world? (Sabria S. Jawhar, Arab News)

Now that Donald Trump has informed us that he has “at least 20 Muslim friends” I can sleep easy at night knowing that when he bombs Muslim countries if he becomes president of the United States he’s doing it for our own good.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/882216

It is a blessing in disguise (Sabria S. Jawhar, Arab News)

Given the plummeting oil prices and the government’s efforts to implement its program to reduce the deficit in the fiscal budget, it comes as no surprise that the generous King Abdullah Scholarship Program would be affected.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/880731

KSA moving in a new direction (Sabria S. Jawhar, Arab News)

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/865141

It’s justice not ‘provocation’ (Sabria S. Jawhar, Arab News)

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/861436